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We are grateful for the research of Elaine M. Stephens of the LaVernia Historical Association in providing the following
links that may help you find out more of your family history as well as that of Wilson County:
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION http://www.thc.state.tx.us/index.html
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION - ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MARKERS http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/
TEXAS STATE CEMETERY http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/database.asp
HISTORICAL SITES IN WILSON COUNTY http://www.forttours.com/pages/hmwilson.asp#texas
LA VERNIA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION www.laverniahistory.com
Info about Denhawken, Kosciusko, Pandora, Stockdale and more, go to www.sklossfarmservice.com, then click on "About Us" Very interesting!
WILSON COUNTY PUBLIC RECORDS http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/wilson/
WILSON COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE http://wilson-tx.tamu.edu/
TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT This contains a search engine for the site and links to all the counties in Texas : http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/Texas/
WILSON COUNTY NEWS www.wilsoncountynews.com
Floresville Chamber of Commerce www.floresvillechamber.org
South Texas Historical Association http://archives.tamuk.edu/STHA.html
INTERNET GENEALOGY LINKS
Wilson County, Texas, RootsWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/cemph/wilsonph.html
Wilson County, Texas, Genealogy Forum Message Board (GenForum): http://genforum.genealogy.com/tx/wilson/
Birthdate Calculator: http://searchforancestors.com/utility/birthday.html
10,000 Year Calculator: http://calendarhome.com/tyc/ (Find out what
day a certain date fell on.)
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: http://www.cyndislist.com/ (thousands of genealogy links)
DAR Patriot Look-up Service (free): http://www.dar.org/natsociety/PI_lookup.cfm?Rt=OV&ID=
Everton Publishers: http://www.everton.com/
Family Search.Org: http://www.familysearch.org/ (Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints)
GHOTES: http://www.esva.net/ghotes/index.htm
(Genealogy & History of the Eastern Shore --Accomack & Northampton Counties of Virginia; very, very good)
Worldwide records: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/wggenweb/
(from the US GenWeb)
RootsWeb (home page): http://www.rootsweb.com/
RootsWeb's Texas Death Records (1964 - 1998): http://vitals.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi
RootsWeb WorldConnect Project Global Search: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
RootsWeb's Index of Public records: Index of /pub/usgenweb http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ (lists the public records in text form for each state in the U.S.)
Social Security Death Interactive Search: http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
U S GenWeb: http://www.usgenweb.com/ (Each state has a page
loaded with information.)
Texas State Library & Archives Commission: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/
Texas Adjutant General Service Records (1836-1935): http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/service/index.html (Search for records of members of the Texas Rangers.)
Vitalsearch Worldwide: http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com/
Vitalsearch Texas State Portal: http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/tx/tx_.htm (has birth, marriage and divorce records)
Newspapers of the United States: http://www.usnpl.com/ (lists most newspapers of
all the states)
Some pay sites:
Ancestry.Com http://www.ancestry.com/main1.htm
Genealogy.Com http://genforum.genealogy.com/ (This site is free,
but requires a membership fee for access to their records.)
CIVIL WAR SEARCH SITES
These sites were given in the April 2005 edition of the National Geographic on the last page as a good resource for finding
confederate soldiers or sailors:
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
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